yesterday i cleaned house today i cleaned fiddies.
so i took skittles in the bathroom first, he loves to shower and play around, climbing me like i'm a jungle gym! lol! then ollie, he likes the spray bottle but i guess i never can get his face clean enough. so he sits in the water dish and washes his face while i spray the rest. marley, too, loves that spray bottle. since ollie came here, marley has decided that the spray bottle is much better than the sink. however, if momma doesnt do the rain dance regularly, marley will get his pretty white t-shirt pristine in the waterdish.
so i'm standing between ollie and marley, spraying frantically back and forth. they dont believe in taking turns. i cant convince either one to go second, so i just go back and forth between them. anyway, i feel something wet by my toes... its skittles!! and he was
running! he climbed right up into marley's cage! thank goodness, marley had chosen that moment to jump on my shoulder and was leaf bathing in my hair, which is also soaking wet, thanks to skittles' shower. so i put marley in the kitchen window and temporarily suspend the bathing, trying to get skittles out of marley's cage.
now for those of you who dont remember, skittles is afraid of the squirt bottle, his previous owner used one to punish him. somad i've been trying to help him get over it by letting him touch it, hold it, and gently spraying it into the air over him and i together. he always screams in fear and runs to the highest point he can. well, i took this opportunity to try it again. i let him touch it, he mouthed it a bit. i squirted it in the air over him so the water would drift down through the bars. and he actually enjoyed it!
i gave him another squirt, and he was happily flapping and making some of his macaw happy noises. now ya have to remember, he's squashed his big macaw self into marley's cage, so the flapping was not very complete.
so after a few happy squirts i convinced him to go into the kitchen and sprayed him a bit in there. he was a happy fid! so after that, marley went back to his room and the dueling baths continued.
its a banner day here!! i'm so proud of skittles for overcoming his fear and realizing that the squirt bottle is fun. now we have three soggy fiddies, dripping all over the place. (twiggy declined a bath today. she claims to have bathed in her water dish yesterday. ) and one soggy momma, too! marley is happily drying in the sun in his favorite kitchen window. skittles is sitting atop his totem pole happily rubbing his head. and ollie is sitting on his bedroom door, dozing. <sigh> nothing better than happy fiddies.
